July 24, 2003

Swiss Moblogging Companies Launching

KAYWA.com went live today. Congratulations! And I hope the cuban cigar is a good omen that will lead to tropical weather for your streetparade feast.

In other news (sorry, link will expire in a few weeks) a service called "share the moment" was launched in cooperation with Sony-Ericsson, that has some resemblance to moblogging. They use the swiss dial codes for mobile phones as domains, like 079.ch, and then expose your actual phone number in the URL. I don't think that I would want it. And I hear that signing up is quite complicated as it involves receiving three SMS and then uploading a configuration, and then finally registering (Thanks, Chris's, for the link and testing).

Easy signup is important in this field. A really lovely example for easy signup techniques - while unrelated to moblogging - is the Mailinator. Free Email without any signup at all! Perfect if sites ask for your email for no apparent reason.

Posted by seefeld at July 24, 2003 10:12
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if i read the nzz article correctly, share the moment is actually 079.ch. and thanks for the good wishes :)

Posted by: Gregor J. Rothfuss at July 24, 2003 10:54 AM

i actually got a recistration card for that service when i bought my mobile (i was not mobile until two weeks or so..) and i did not sign up because it looked ways to complicated !

and they claim "schnelle und einfache registrierung".

and say stuff like:
[snip] dir wird umgehend per SMS ein Emailaccount eingerichtet und deine Email-Zieladresse zum versenden der BIlder auf deine Homepage ins Adressbuch deines Handies eingetragen.

and it will cost five bucks per month when the three months-promotion is over....

Posted by: HABi at July 24, 2003 07:39 PM

Swisscom's 079.ch sounds very much like the bild.li-Service.

Who's idea was that anyway? Chris'? "UltraStyle 3000" very much sounds like him... ;-)

Posted by: Andreas F. Bobak at July 25, 2003 08:38 AM

bild.li is a project of Chris and me.

Posted by: Bernhard Seefeld at July 25, 2003 01:06 PM

Hi Bernhard

Thanks for the nice welcome for Kaywa. I've just seen that you have trackback and RSS now as well. Great!

Best
Roger

Posted by: Roger at August 1, 2003 12:28 AM

Hallo

Mit grossem Interesse haben wir eure Unterhaltung über die Mobile Picture Website gelsen. Solltet Ihr Fragen haben zu der Anmeldung, sendet uns doch einfach ein Email, wir werden euch gerne weiterhelfen. Die Einstellungen auf dem Handy benötigt Ihr, um eure Bilder direkt auf eure eigene Homepage zu senden. Ihr braucht diese SMS einfach nur mit ja zu bestätigen und schon seit ihr online und euer Handy konfiguriert.

Freundliche Grüsse

MPW-Team / Webmaster

Posted by: Webmaster 079.ch at August 26, 2003 08:09 AM
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